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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Introduction and Chapter I.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Cudjo says that when a new wife comes to a house, she at first lives with whom until she gets her own house?
(a) The next-to-latest wife to be wed.
(b) The man.
(c) The original wife.
(d) The pastor.

2. In what season does Hurston interview Cudjo for the first time within Barracoon's pages?
(a) Autumn.
(b) Spring.
(c) Summer.
(d) Winter.

3. Hearing what word often brings tears to Cudjo's eyes within the interviews?
(a) Slave.
(b) Son.
(c) Africa.
(d) Mother.

4. The King of Dahomey at the time of Cudjo's capture had what name?
(a) King Abad.
(b) King Whydah.
(c) King Olaudah.
(d) King Ghezo.

5. The King of Dahomey, on whose behalf Cudjo was captured and sold into slavery, is said to have maintained an army of how many people?
(a) 1,500.
(b) 12,000.
(c) 5,000.
(d) 3,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cudjo say had been the name of the god he had worshiped in Africa?

2. Cudjo says that the daughter of a very rich man back in his community in Africa would install each of his daughters in a fat-house for what period of time?

3. The owner of the Clotilde deceptively reported that the ship had been on a mission to retrieve what product?

4. The well from which Cudjo draws his water at his Alabama home lies between two rows of what type of crop?

5. What day and time does Cudjo name at the end of Chapter I when telling Hurston when she should return to his home?

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